Joystiq is reporting that CCP Games, the developer behind EVE Online, has struck a deal with NVIDIA for players to use in-game currency -- PLEX -- to purchase GeForce 560 GTX graphics cards, which run almost $200 at retail. That's fake money for real items, folks. NVIDIA and CCP will start by selling 100 graphics cards (limit one per EVE account) to test the demand. After CCP announced its NVIDIA deal, the in-game price of PLEX jumped "significantly," CCP said. PLEX (Pilot License Extension) is an in-game currency that can be used to pay for 30-day EVE subscriptions. PLEX can be purchased with ISK, EVE's main currency that can be earned throughout the game, meaning some dedicated players end up with a free subscription each month. Now they may end up with a "free" graphics card as well.

Im guessing your the kinda guy that spends what little free time he has playing games like farmville.

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lol

Yeah, hating games that are designed as massively repetitive grind fests, which often require a $15/month subscription, and which are known to slaughter people's social lives in about 3 seconds definitely means that I play games like farmville.

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I'm guessing you're the kinda guy that failed second grade English class and doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're".

Yeah, hating games that are designed as massively repetitive grind fests, which often require a $15/month subscription, and which are known to slaughter people's social lives in about 3 seconds definitely means that I play games like farmville.

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I'm guessing you're the kinda guy that failed second grade English class and doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're".

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#1 not all are repetitive 'grindfests'

#2 not all require a subscription to be played.

#3 unless you've played every MMO on the planet which I highly doubt. using WoW as a benchmark is so last year and not everyone who plays MMOs (such as myself) is a basement dweller or shuns social gatherings and daylight.

and to state it shows how much you really know and just how arrogant you are.

From what little I know about EVE, I can imagine this is going to cause an increase in piracy

I love how people hate on MMOs for having subscriptions, then they spend triple, or more, the amount on Facebook games that they'll never own either. Paying $$ for a tiny non animated picture when with that same amount of money, MMO players get hours of game time and see all sorts of new things.

Been there, seen it, could never understand why some people would spend so much money on mere pictures. Sure you can play the games for free, but most are geared so that you can't do anything worthwhile unless you buy items. That is how F2P works.

I've tried googling for the original announcement CCP and I couldn't find it. All I could find were various articles reporting this, so I'm not sure how legitimate this news is. It sounds like an April Fool, doesn't it? Admittedly though, these are reputable sites that have been reporting it.

It's supposed to have been announced at the CCP keynote, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

It's kind of funny that the card they will sell you is so overkill for that game it's not even funny! If the deal had been for a lower amount, and for a lower range GPU, and they had more units to sell then this would be truly amazing.